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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Columbus, Ohio's Eternal Bloodshed tear through blackened death and thrash with the all-or-nothing intensity that has come to define the city's underground in recent years. Founded in 2020, they waste nothing on atmosphere when riff violence will do.
Groove/thrash metal act from Dessau-Rosslau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2025. Their name evokes an eternal sunrise, driving a sound that merges groove metal's rhythmic power with thrash velocity.
Death/thrash metal band from Lucerne, Switzerland, delivering relentless, high-speed aggression since 2013. Their uncompromising name captures the permanence and finality of their extreme metal assault.
Thrash/death metal act from Ahnatal in Hesse, Germany, delivering relentless aggression since 2018. Their name captures the unending deterioration at the core of their crossover extreme metal sound.
Seattle's Eternal Dusk arrived in 2023 fusing melodic death and thrash into something that carries the grey Pacific Northwest sky in its tone. Their city's long tradition of heavy, atmosphere-soaked metal seems baked into every riff.
The Polish city of Łódź serves as headquarters for this thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age. Razor-edged guitar tone and barked vocals recall thrash's golden era.
When Eternal Messiah emerged in 2024 from Odesa, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and thrash metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
California's Eternal Misery take the savagery of black, death, and thrash metal and run them through the same blender without pausing for breath. Active since 2012, they are a no-frills extremity machine with consistent venom.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels thrash metal with a focus on crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Formed in 2007, based in Rijnsburg, their approach channels the urgency of early Metallica and Slayer.
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